| When we meditate we take a prime thought and | | | | self culture over time, as we patiently transform |
| choose to identify with it. We generally choose a | | | | ourselves into the picture we hold of human |
| natural creation that appeals to us so that we can | | | | excellence of our own ideal. |
| attune to its energies. So, through a focus on | | | | Our thoughts seek comparisons. If we could |
| things of nature and natural forms, we seek to | | | | transform any darkness of ignorance or |
| expand our understanding of the vital creative | | | | wrongdoing in our being and gradually over time |
| energies of Nature behind the outer forms and | | | | and through the lessons of life experience, |
| apparent purposes. | | | | develop a crystalline quality that allows us clear |
| This particular exercise in meditation is based upon | | | | perception of the truths of life, our minds could |
| the lengthy process of natural forces at work | | | | also be pure enough to reflect greater Truths, |
| over aeons in creating diamonds. The diamond | | | | light and wisdom. |
| crystals are formed in the earth from carbon in | | | | We allow our minds to consider that instead of |
| the normal slow evolutionary process that takes | | | | having to accumulate all knowledge for instance, |
| millions of years to transform basic black carbon | | | | our minds would, like the diamond, become |
| into the pure crystal gemstone that, when | | | | capable of reflecting the lights and colours of |
| faceted, can be displayed in jewellers' windows. | | | | truths as needed. |
| The diamond takes its rightful place as the most | | | | We imagine our minds pure, having emerged from |
| royal gemstone. It popularly symbolizes purity, | | | | our earthly experiences and pains, becoming pure |
| fidelity, power, wealth and truth. | | | | and capable of radiating the powerful energies of |
| If possible, a true clear and colourless diamond | | | | the vitality of the colour red, the enthusiasm of |
| gemstone or ring is used as a material focus for | | | | orange, the knowledge of golden yellow, the |
| meditation in order to observe its characteristics | | | | harmony of green, the love of sky blue, the |
| and its ability to channel natural light and reflect it | | | | devotional intensity of indigo, and the spiritual |
| through the full range of the colour spectrum. The | | | | purity of royal purple in response to the Universal |
| flashes of pure colour are a measure of its quality. | | | | Light of Truth itself. |
| We can also meditate using only our imagination if | | | | In the experience of meditation we let our |
| a gem is not available. | | | | thoughts and feelings flow out from their |
| The evolution of this thing of beauty and influence | | | | anchorage in these ideas, choosing to identify |
| arrives at its place of power and perfection as | | | | ourselves with our own selected finest qualities |
| we ourselves seek to be successful in our own | | | | and virtues or upon the Universal Light itself. |